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Sigh, agreed. The Microsoft TechNet article in the link is dated 13 September 2011. AND it says that this is no longer a problem for users who installed the update, issued several …

What does that site have to do with developer dissatisfaction with API's?

For reference, here's the original post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2627571 with 20 up votes and some other corroboration of what @IgorPartola mentioned.

Sounds like what Mikko Hypponen said about Stuxnet: Today is June 24th. Exactly one year from now, Stuxnet will erase itself from infected machines. It reaches Kill Date http://www…

For the "What are your greatest strengths or weaknesses?" question, don't say your greatest weakness is "being a perfectionist".

Yes, it IS fantastic. Terms are defined and then different possible series of actions are all explained verbally and accompanied by a tidy flow chart, gradually building in complex…

Uncommonly good post about venture capital. Check out this comment too, by Ed Borasky (applied mathematician and media inactivist): http://bit.ly/f7nTYp Many other good comments, M…

I noticed it for the first time yesterday when I tried Google Shopping (against my better judgement, my mother wanted me to get her pajamas and online was easiest). Then I saw the …

I found the same lovely-faces URL on this page as mentioned above. Same "Error 1045" message.

It gives this error message: "Sorry the web site not work. You should try again. Connection to SQL server is failed. Error 1045". And then it keeps retrying to connect. I read the …

I viewed it with Chrome 9 beta in Windows 7. It rotates very nicely in 3-D. But it looks like Hawaii Punch graffiti defacing an HTML5 logo. Does Hacker News support images? What is…

Excellent article, sources cited too!

I noticed that too, after reading the last paragraph about how Adobe Flash supposedly is the "safe" way, in contrast to HTML5. I even double checked to make sure I hadn't landed on…